MacFixIt reader Guy Kuo reports a limitation in Apple's AirPort devices that prevents proper access to Windows-based wireless networks using a WEP slot key other than "1." In essence, if the wireless ...

A new standard will be ready early next year that makes it much harder to eavesdrop or fake a user ID on wireless networks. When researchers first reported serious security problems with Wi-Fi ...

A network security key is basically your Wi-Fi password — it's the encryption key that protects your internet. There are three different kinds of network security keys: WEP, WPA, and WPA2, each more ...

The first wireless security network to mark its appearance was WEP or Wired Equivalent Privacy. It started off with 64-bit encryption (weak) and eventually went all ...

If you are unable to connect to your Linksys Wi-Fi router because of an incorrect password, you can use the WEP key to restore your connection. Here we will show you ...

Further flaws found in the algorithm have brought the time taken to find the key down to a matter of minutes, but that’s not necessarily fast enough to break into systems that change their security ...

Providing security for wireless LANs (WLANs) presents particular challenges. In a wired network it is possible to maintain physical control over the access points (APs)-an intruder must have access to ...

First let me preface this by saying that I've been working on wireless security for about 2 months solid now, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. <BR><BR>Why is everyone touting 128-bit WEP as this giant ...

Everything that I've always read says that WPA is superior to any form of WEP in almost every way.